On Water

Link: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/ccow.html

The fall 2007 schedule for WRCA's lecture series, the California Colloquium on Water, has been finalized. All lectures are held from 5:30 - 7:00pm and include a post-lecture question and answer session with the speaker. This semester the lectures will be held in room 112 Wurster Hall (please note the room change from previous semesters). The line up:

September 11: "Confluence, Confusion, or Catastrophe: Prospects for Ending the Delta Stalemate" given by John Cain, Director of Restoration Programs for the Natural Heritage Institute.

October 9: "Tracking the Nation's Ground Water Reserves" given by Dr. William M. Alley, Chief of the Office of Groundwater in the west for the U.S. Geological Survey

November 13: "Climate Change Implications of Waste Treatment" given by Perry L. McCarty, Silas H. Palmer Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University and winner of the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize.

December 4: "A Camera Aloft: California’s Wetlands and Streams from a Bird’s Perspective" given by Charles C. Benton, Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

You can see the full line up, including abstracts, on the Colloquium page. Also available are all the newly digitized past Colloquium lectures in RealMedia and Google video, courtesy of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, as well as the accompanying PowerPoint presentations.